Rabin, the Last Day Page #4

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of the things that were said and heard,

some of which are infuriating

and unacceptable.

They should reconsider

their statements.

And how, in your opinion,

can they reconsider their statements

if the legal system under your jurisdiction

doesn't deal with sedition

and willingly chooses not to?

As I said,

hearsay is not grounds

for incrimination.

Some of this hearsay,

as we recall,

resulted in unnecessary harm.

I want to quote Avtalion

from the Sayings of the Fathers,

a verse with which

I closed my report

regarding the investigation

of the rabbis.

Sages, be careful with your words

lest you bring exile upon yourselves

and you are exiled to a place

of evil waters...

and your pupils drink of them

and they die...

and desecrate God's name.

Yes. I made a note to myself

that I'd like to read to you.

I want to state that it grieves me

that this important letter

was brought to the attention of this

commission only after it issued its report

regarding the assassination

of Yitzhak Rabin.

It's an important document which should

have been discussed in its proper time.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

May God's grace be upon us

and may He guide our hands.

Bless You, O Lord our God,

who sanctified us and commanded us

to affix a mezuzah.

Bless You, O Lord our God,

who sustained us and brought us

to this day.

Yigal, I left you

Tractate Sanhedrin on the desk.

It talks about...

Joab and Abner

on page 49-A,

the Din Rodef law.

You'll get my meaning.

And they brought Joab -

They brought Joab before his judges.

They brought Joab

before Solomon to judge him.

He said, 'Why did you kill Abner?'

'Why did you kill Abner?'

Joab said,

'I avenged Asahel's blood.'

'I avenged Asahel's blood.'

'Asahel was a persecutor.'

For it is written that Asahel pursued Abner

in order to kill him

and Abner justly killed him

in self-defense.

'He should have saved himself

by striking one of his organs.'

He replied, 'He couldn't.'

He replied,

'He aimed at his fifth rib.'

As it is written: Abner struck him

in the fifth rib with his hilt.

Rabbi Yohanan said:

In the fifth rib,

where the gall bladder

and liver are.

'He couldn't strike

only one of his organs.'

He replied, 'Abner was right.

Abner was innocent.'

Tell me what you were doing

before November 4, 1995.

I was a law and computer science

student at Bar-Ilan University.

When did you start?

September '93.

Bar-Ilan also has a school

of religious studies.

So you stopped studying law?

Yes. You could say I stopped.

Until November 4 I was a law student.

- How old are you?

- 25.

Describe the events

of November 4.

I attended morning prayers as usual

at the synagogue near home.

In my prayers I asked to succeed

in killing the prime minister

and to get away unharmed.

Then I packed a few things for school.

I took my gun

from above my desk...

and cocked it

after sorting through the bullets.

I loaded it with a hollow-point bullet,

then a regular bullet,

another hollow-point,

another regular bullet.

About 10 bullets.

I made sure the gun would shoot,

cocked it...

and left the house.

Excuse me.

Hello, everyone. I'd like to begin.

The incident takes place in the settlement

of Beit El in the West Bank.

A large police unit bursts

into the yeshiva.

They arrest a young student

studying with friends.

A rabbi tries to intervene.

There are many policemen there.

Dror Adani, 23,

talks of his plans with Yigal Amir:

to fire a bazooka at Arafat's helicopter

when he arrives in Ramallah,

destroy the Palestinians' electric grid

and torch their fields.

The location:
Beit El.

The police arrest a religious girl.

Margalit Har-Shefi.

Twenty years old.

Yigal Amir's girlfriend.

Her job:
to steal weaponry

from the Beit El armory.

She's aware of Yigal Amir's plan.

She spent hours with Amir's brother.

She knew if there was a plan

to kill Rabin or Peres

or both.

The location:

a villa in Herzliya Pituah.

First Sergeant Arik Schwartz, 23.

Yigal Amir gives him 100 shekels

to find a soldier who'll lend him

a gun with a silencer.

The police find an impressive number

of guns in the basement.

Arik Schwartz is in on the plan

to poison the Rabin family's

water supply.

The plan is never carried out.

He lives with his parents

in Herzliya Pituah.

- Do you see -

- Questions later.

Do you see the direct connection

between the sedition

that preceded the murder

by rabbis, by settlers,

by government officials,

by prime ministers,

- to this despicable murder?

- I can't answer -

- Where's the connection?

- I can't answer political questions.

- It isn't political, it's a conspiracy.

- Ma'am, I want to move on.

The assassin's relatives

are now being investigated.

In some of their houses

arms caches were found

big enough for a terrorist organization.

Magazines, homemade grenades,

delay mechanisms,

smuggled bullets,

clock mechanisms

and missile launchers.

We initiated investigations.

These are the weapons.

We initiated investigations

and plan further investigations.

Charges were pressed against

the first accomplice and he's being held.

The suspect is

Hagai Amir,

the assassin's brother,

who confessed to preparing

the bullets used for the assassination.

But Hagai Amir denies knowing

what Amir's intentions were.

Both brothers are suspected

of belonging to a radical movement.

The police are looking

for other members of the movement.

You can ask questions now.

Thank you.

So your conclusion based

on the evidence

is that Rabin's assassination

was the result of a conspiracy

by a political or religious organization?

Rabin's assassination could be the result

of a radical right-wing conspiracy.

But we're extending our investigations

among movement activists.

Next question.

Did Yigal Amir have accomplices

who helped him get past security

and commit the murder?

As far as we know, Amir acted alone.

Next question.

Was there any previous information

indicating a possible right-wing attack?

All those accomplices,

and neither the police

nor the secret service knew anything?

The police know of no previous information

regarding a Jewish assassin.

Last question.

I understand the police functioned badly

during the incident.

What is your response?

We say

that the police did their job properly.

- That's all. Thank you.

- No!

- We have more questions!

- No more questions.

We want to get back to work.

Thank you. That's all.

Thank you.

- We want to get back to work.

- The nerve!

I want all the files.

Go ahead, guys. Quick.

We want the truth.

We want the whole truth.

What happened there?

Where are the fingerprints?

I'm missing fingerprints.

That's mine.

I need Hagai's. Now.

Hurry up, people.

I'd like to bring up

an ideological issue.

I'm not sure the commission

has a mandate to look into it

but I'll read it to you anyway.

I'm sure you're aware of these things

but we think

it's important

and it constitutes a background

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